WI: Jack Kemp/Steve Forbes '96

Forbes wouldn't have been on that ticket.

Exactly. What does Forbes bring the ticket? Kemp's entire pitch is to fiscal conservatives; if he needs Forbes to bring them in, then he'll be lucky to be on half the ballots. It's stylistically similar to Paul Wellstone/Jesse Jackson, or Pat Buchanan/David Duke. Forbes has no experience, no charisma and no obvious draw.

Kemp seems like a nice guy with obvious commitment to his ideals, but I simply don't see how he could beat Clinton: the age of supply-side economics and economic rationalism was over. To put Forbes on the ticket would compound the problem. A Kemp government would be interesting, but almost impossible to bring about.
 
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